Discuss culture, living, traveling, relocating, dating or anything related to North America. For those looking to relocate within the US or Canada, discuss your experiences and pros/cons of each domestic region.

Taco wrote:The House is $500 but unfortunately you need a $50,000 security system just to protect it, 10 ft. electric fence, CCTV cameras, mine field in your lawn etc...

Yeah, just to keep it from becoming a crack house. Add in at least $300 a month for taxes, probably many thousands in necessary repairs, tenants who won't pay the rent and property managers who will steal it all if they do.

Taco wrote:The House is $500 but unfortunately you need a $50,000 security system just to protect it, 10 ft. electric fence, CCTV cameras, mine field in your lawn etc...

Yeah, just to keep it from becoming a crack house. Add in at least $300 a month for taxes, probably many thousands in necessary repairs, tenants who won't pay the rent and property managers who will steal it all if they do.

As Full Force said in the 80s, "WORD!"

"I appreciate the opportunities I have in America. Opportunities that allow me to live abroad." **Smiles** - Have2Fly@H.A. (2013)

"The only way to overcome that is to go abroad to get a broad."
- E. Irizarry (2009)